Why Bananas Are At Risk of Extinction

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  • Опубликовано: 1 янв 2025

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  • @animalogic
    @animalogic  3 года назад +81

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    • @ak.5620
      @ak.5620 3 года назад

      Hi

    • @twallace6262
      @twallace6262 3 года назад

      I would love to see an episode about the world of peppers; sweet, mild or spicy; as food or weapons, peppers are amazing!

    • @Ashish-cs9ul
      @Ashish-cs9ul 3 года назад +1

      Hi, I am from India. Can you send me or tell me how can I get the Blue Java Banana species here.

    • @moshemeyers4810
      @moshemeyers4810 3 года назад

      you forgot Australia....

    • @warrenarnold
      @warrenarnold 3 года назад

      Oh and the puns yow the puns, levels. But 2:00 yeap tbh i also thought she lived in a greenhouse. She looks so colorful, just like a flower 😸😸 i know my interests are shifting, but still say hi to Danielle

  • @SheevPalpatine66420
    @SheevPalpatine66420 3 года назад +740

    It's actually impressive to see a blue shaded fruit. Blueberries are purple, black berries are purple, grapes are purple, but blue anything outside if the ocean is so hard to find in nature and her pigments.

    • @aaronnekrin5150
      @aaronnekrin5150 3 года назад +15

      Yea I think most blue foods are died with bugs lol edit: wow I spelled dye wrong lol

    • @amelialikesfrogs5778
      @amelialikesfrogs5778 3 года назад +8

      There are loads of blue flowers

    • @Prismaticlysm
      @Prismaticlysm 3 года назад +60

      @@amelialikesfrogs5778 Not true. Blue is extremely rare in nature. Some flowers may look blue, but they aren't. It's kinda crazy!

    • @oBuLLzEyEo1013
      @oBuLLzEyEo1013 3 года назад +8

      Yeah yeah, we've all had the no blue in nature and/or why the ancient greeks couldn't see blue or whatever in our recommened but yeah "you" are absolutely right the ocean is blue...

    • @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside
      @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside 3 года назад +18

      Peacocks:

  • @mihairadugeorgescu616
    @mihairadugeorgescu616 3 года назад +604

    I'd love to know more about the vanilla plant. It's literally everywhere, yet most people don' t know it actually looks similar to a vine plant.

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 3 года назад +12

      Yeah and that outside its native habitat, it have to be hand-pollinated!

    • @sus7064
      @sus7064 3 года назад +4

      are you romanian

    • @jurianf.kaunang1808
      @jurianf.kaunang1808 3 года назад +5

      @@nunyabiznes33 my grandpa was a vanilla farmer :)

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 3 года назад +5

      @@sus7064 I'm a little Romanian and even spoke some Romanian for a while
      Problem is I'm also Romani and every time I'm talking about the Romani people are like "so you're Romanian" and I'm like well yes but that's something else entirely

    • @sus7064
      @sus7064 3 года назад

      @@ConstantChaos1 ok

  • @jobelljajalla5126
    @jobelljajalla5126 3 года назад +76

    Im from Philippines and we have plenty of blue bananas planted in our small farm. We include it in our daily meals to control our weight. Nice video you have there.

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 3 года назад +2

      I never see those in markets. 😔

    • @jobelljajalla5126
      @jobelljajalla5126 3 года назад +13

      @@nunyabiznes33 it is that rare. we planted these types of banana for our personal consumption or diet. we do not sell these in markets.

    • @Bonski11
      @Bonski11 2 года назад +1

      ano pangalan ng variety na yan boss?

    • @CaraTheStrange
      @CaraTheStrange 2 года назад

      I live in south africa and wish i could taste them, they sound yummy!

    • @ChrisTian-sd5yq
      @ChrisTian-sd5yq Год назад

      saba ba yan?

  • @brendanhoffmann8402
    @brendanhoffmann8402 3 года назад +248

    There is an interesting plant you could do the native 'Yam daisy' from Australia. They are pretty scarce now but before European colonization they were ubiquitous and the Aboriginal people would cultivate and store them. There's a great book that talks a lot about the yam daisy called 'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe.

    • @sergersgerhersh6594
      @sergersgerhersh6594 3 года назад +3

      Dark Emu?
      That sounds scary, Emus are crazy.

    • @rawdata678
      @rawdata678 3 года назад

      @@sergersgerhersh6594 shhhh! Dont name em; squirrels are Watching!

    • @jamescustodio3094
      @jamescustodio3094 3 года назад +2

      Yam daisy? Please tell me more!

    • @flamah10n
      @flamah10n 3 года назад

      hey, hi fella, help me! what is tge name of an Aussie native tree with spiky leafs, and fruitscwhich looks something like an round graned, a round with spikes, in which are individual parts or seeds, when ready to be eaten, it is really Orange, yellow and red.
      thx

    • @brendanhoffmann8402
      @brendanhoffmann8402 3 года назад

      @@flamah10n Don't know that one I'm afraid, sounds a bit like a rambutan but they're not native to Australia

  • @haf1872
    @haf1872 3 года назад +63

    I've tried the blue bananas, the reddish one and it's really tasty. Here in South East Asia, banana is used for everything from banana fritters to banana pancakes, to using the green leaves to wrap food etc.

    • @XSemperIdem5
      @XSemperIdem5 3 года назад +1

      What shade should the reddish banana peel be to know it's ripe enough? I once bought one but wasn't sure and waited too long. Oops. I usually eat my regular bananas when they're mostly yellow but have a hint of green at each end. Once they're spotty, I hate the flavor.

    • @thelostandlonelysoul7973
      @thelostandlonelysoul7973 3 года назад +4

      @@XSemperIdem5 You may be surprised when if I tell you that there is also a type of banana that is completely green when it's ripe and ready to eat. You can only tell if it's ripe if its already soft when you touch it. The reddish banana also has the same pigment when it's ripe.

    • @letssmile3564
      @letssmile3564 3 года назад +3

      yess, we even eat the banana heart

    • @RViND
      @RViND 2 года назад +1

      In Malaysia the red ones are pretty common but I've never seen the blue ones anywhere.

    • @chargemankent
      @chargemankent 2 года назад

      @@letssmile3564 Yeah, that thing is delicious! I always eat it with Peanut Sauce.

  • @khalidsami7947
    @khalidsami7947 3 года назад +6

    Fun fact: the word banana is an Arabic word that means fingers. Arab traders brought bananas from Southeast Asia to Europe. Arabs used to call banana as “banan Al moze”.

  • @watchdealer11
    @watchdealer11 3 года назад +129

    Tasha DOESN'T live in a greenhouse?! 🤨

    • @kenbee1957
      @kenbee1957 3 года назад +7

      😆😆😆😆

    • @thany3
      @thany3 3 года назад +6

      Maybe... She lives in a green house? 😁

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 года назад +1

      @@thany3
      But why?
      Did she really need that extra space?

    • @flamah10n
      @flamah10n 3 года назад +4

      She lives in the amazon where else! haha

  • @c.i.demann3069
    @c.i.demann3069 3 года назад +169

    an interesting episode might be all the plants that are wrongly classified, like bananas being berries, or tomatoes being fruit.

    • @W4VDragon
      @W4VDragon 3 года назад +18

      tomatoes are both fruit and berries though, scientifically "fruit" is a name for any seed bearing structure of flowering plants (which includes berries too)

    • @iheartprojectmoon
      @iheartprojectmoon 3 года назад +2

      bananas are berries? tf?

    • @yodamaster445
      @yodamaster445 3 года назад +5

      @@iheartprojectmoon And strawberries are actualy nuts

    • @iheartprojectmoon
      @iheartprojectmoon 3 года назад +2

      @@yodamaster445 wtf

    • @yodamaster445
      @yodamaster445 2 года назад +2

      @@iheartprojectmoon Tomatoes are also berries, melons, pumpkins and cucumbers too

  • @jcespinoza
    @jcespinoza 3 года назад +149

    It always both annoys me and fascinates me, botanists can interrupt conversations with "it's actually a berry", "that is actually not the fruit but the seed", "those are actually fruit not vegetables" and so on 😅

    • @yodamaster445
      @yodamaster445 3 года назад +6

      Theoretically vegetables are fruits

    • @frozenlettuce293
      @frozenlettuce293 3 года назад +13

      There's actually no such thing as vegtables, that's a culinary term, not an actual plant term

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 2 года назад

      Philosophically..bananas are fruits and strawberries are berries.

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 2 года назад +1

      @@frozenlettuce293 according to whom??..oh..wait..let me guess..according to
      " the exthperrrrtzzz" .. I hate living in a technocracy.

    • @frozenlettuce293
      @frozenlettuce293 2 года назад +4

      @@sissyrayself7508 ???

  • @skunkman9815
    @skunkman9815 3 года назад +45

    Bananas are going extinct!!!???
    I hope they don’t
    Because if they do we won’t have banana bread
    Which is my favorite food made of bananas

    • @vladcrow4225
      @vladcrow4225 3 года назад +1

      If I remember my NBCP university course correctly, bananas were mentioned as an ideal target for the biological weapon. Even one isolated deployment zone per continent is likely enough to exclude them from the food supply pool. Wheat is on the second place as a possible risk.

    • @enidmercedad
      @enidmercedad 3 года назад

      The BEST banana bread is made out of really ripped plantains. A natural, non hybrid fruit.

    • @mirishikibacchus6862
      @mirishikibacchus6862 3 года назад

      I have banana trees in my yard

    • @Alisi437
      @Alisi437 3 года назад

      Wait bananas are going extinct???!!!
      From last I checked there are still tons of bananas growing on my family plantation back in my island home Tonga. Like they literally grow everywhere and we’d pick them off the banana tree while it is still green. And hang them at the back porch covered up. After that we wait for like 2 to 3 weeks and there we have it nice riped bananas. The only thing that is hard to get are vanilla’s they take time and care to grow them. My grandpa owns a vanilla plantation and they export them to overseas like New Zealand. In Tonga there is a season for every fruit. We have watermelon season which we pretty much get more melons that the usual. There is pineapple season, mango season. Coconuts nah we get those every day. Bananas yeah everyday from the front yard or the backyard.

    • @tasyarosenna88
      @tasyarosenna88 3 года назад

      I love banana smoothies 😩

  • @thany3
    @thany3 3 года назад +4

    So.. what do you do for a living?
    - I'm a banana scientist.
    Ahh, I see, a "banana" scientist huh 😏
    - Yes, I science bananas.
    Sure, sure, sure 😉

  • @chickadeestevenson5440
    @chickadeestevenson5440 3 года назад +10

    They grow Bananas in Iceland, in a geothermal greenhouse. Because OF COURSE Iceland does something weird.

    • @nitroagent6494
      @nitroagent6494 2 года назад

      You watched weird fruit explorers too? And yes I loved their series going over that

    • @kevineckelkampe2r
      @kevineckelkampe2r 2 года назад

      @@nitroagent6494 I'll have to search that

  • @RamnaViaz
    @RamnaViaz 3 года назад +7

    Fun fact about the Gros Michel variety of banana is that you can actually still taste it even though it doesn't exist anymore; artificial banana flavoring was designed to imitate the taste of gros Michel before they went extinct, that's why banana flavored candy tastes nothing like any banana we know because we are in fact tasting and smelling gros Michel bananas or at the very least something that resembles them closely.

    • @XSemperIdem5
      @XSemperIdem5 3 года назад +1

      Whaaa? Huh, that's interesting. So when we complain about the artificial banana flavor it's actually an imitation of the old banana flavor.

    • @kyleedwards6873
      @kyleedwards6873 3 года назад +2

      Gros Michel aren't extinct.I have eaten a few. They are rare, but in certain communities I'm sure you would find it and other lesser known varieties.

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 3 года назад +2

      You can still get gros michel in some places in south east Asia.

  • @chgaming5059
    @chgaming5059 2 года назад +1

    **Bananas about to extinct**
    Monkeys: this is an Avengers level threat

  • @laurenthomas7074
    @laurenthomas7074 3 года назад +7

    Hearing people eat in videos is just...oof for someone with misophonia
    It makes it really hard to continue

    • @rawdata678
      @rawdata678 3 года назад +1

      I have It and in a very strong form It seems, I get literally angry hearing people eat, and with time Im finding me eating alone, with my own sounds starting to bothering me, so I have to eat slowly and with some noise, music, or TV distracting me. What a weird thing😋

    • @kevineckelkampe2r
      @kevineckelkampe2r 2 года назад

      Microaggression lol

  • @pablodavidclavijo4609
    @pablodavidclavijo4609 3 года назад +3

    If bananas go extinct I might literally die

  • @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney
    @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney 3 года назад +96

    I’d REALLY like to try a blue Java banana! I’ve never seen them, even in fancy grocery stores in major cities (I live in a college town of about 45,000 in Appalachia), I wonder if they can somehow be had on the interweb. Time to learn about that situation, it would seem.

    • @WorldWarIVXX
      @WorldWarIVXX 3 года назад +3

      A local grower here in NE FL had some & we bought one about 2 years ago! I'd love to tell you about it but...no fruit yet. 😭

    • @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney
      @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney 3 года назад +3

      @@WorldWarIVXX Probably not. I think you’d have to have a greenhouse even that far south, my girlfriend’s sister lives in Clearwater and cant get fruit way down there with a standard Cavendish plant.

    • @elijahirby250
      @elijahirby250 3 года назад +1

      Maybe you can order it online and have it shipped to you

    • @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney
      @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney 3 года назад +2

      @@elijahirby250 It’s almost like I said EXACTLY that or something…

    • @synivy4576
      @synivy4576 3 года назад +2

      @@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney okay maybe he didn’t see it stop being rude. Weirdo.

  • @stevebennett9839
    @stevebennett9839 3 года назад +5

    Did u know 57% of the 90% of people who were surveyed can't spell bananas without playing that (I think) Gwen Stefani song in their head. U know it
    "This shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s" that is... Bonkers.

  • @thundercat9427
    @thundercat9427 3 года назад +4

    This fruit makes me excited for heaven, when I can taste rasberry bananas😁

  • @KoldBreeze
    @KoldBreeze 3 года назад +5

    Sugar apples aka Sweetsop. If you stew the leaves in water to make tea, the resulting tea had been known to repair internal organs. Look it up

  • @sagmilling
    @sagmilling 3 года назад +3

    You forgot to mention 🍌 are slightly radioactive.

  • @mukhtaralbahlani5273
    @mukhtaralbahlani5273 3 года назад +8

    Well actually bananas are grown all over the tropics from the equatorial forest regions to desert areas the only condition bananas need to fruit is high enough temperatures and a lot of water depending on the cultivar of course for instance the most common bananas grown in the middle eat is the dwarf Cavendish and is mainly used sold as green cooking bananas and they are very hardy tolerating temperatures as high as 51°C but not for a very long period

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield7218 3 года назад +3

    Not only on my counter...have them growing in my backyard

  • @Rick-kt6rc
    @Rick-kt6rc 3 года назад +1

    When she said scientists are hard at work so we don't have a bananaless future really got me thinking about humanities future 😂

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 3 года назад +6

    Your map on banana cultivation is WRONG.
    Australia grows bananas.
    Most in Queensland and some in northern NSW, NT and WA.

  • @oktyrant8953
    @oktyrant8953 3 года назад +4

    Shoutout for pronouncing "plaintain" correctly (It's a noun, like mountain and fountain, not a verb like maintain and obtain) ☺

  • @triceratopsdude7710
    @triceratopsdude7710 3 года назад +2

    PLEASE do an episode about elephants! I LOVE elephants!

  • @andrelangston4307
    @andrelangston4307 2 года назад +1

    Just FYI, ice cream bananas, which we grow, don't have a vanilla flavour. They have a mild banana flavour and are indeed creamier than regular bananas.

  • @dracone4370
    @dracone4370 3 года назад +48

    Now I'm wondering about Dragon Fruit, like how it got its name and what its deal is.
    Also, what about kiwis? Why does the small hairy fruit share its name with one of New Zealand's native birds?

    • @camramaster
      @camramaster 3 года назад +9

      As someone has not a clue:
      The dragon fruit looks like how people thought dragon eggs looked.
      Kiwis taste like kiwis. Birds are fruity and juicy.

    • @giovannirodriguesdasilva646
      @giovannirodriguesdasilva646 3 года назад +11

      The native name is pitaya and it means fruit with scales, the dragon must have come from there, I just don't understand the English name of passion fruit (the original name "Maracujá" means fruit that is eaten in the bowl)

    • @thany3
      @thany3 3 года назад +5

      And oranges!
      Is it called orange because it has that colour, or is the colour orange named after the fruit?

    • @dracone4370
      @dracone4370 3 года назад +7

      @@thany3 that debate has been going for who knows how long

    • @dwarrior7546
      @dwarrior7546 3 года назад +1

      @@thany3 yes

  • @WorldWarIVXX
    @WorldWarIVXX 3 года назад +3

    Exactly what credentials are required to be a "banana scientist?" (Asking for a friend. )

  • @kbee225
    @kbee225 3 года назад +39

    I really miss growing bananas. I moved to the Midwest and it's next to impossible to grow them here. The whole plant can be used for something or the other. The stem fibers can be made into thread to make garlands, the leaves can be used as a makeshift plate (and even in cooking), the flowers, the unripe fruits, ripened fruits, the stalk (the middle part of the stem), the corm (root tubers/bulbs) can all be eaten.

  • @footfault1941
    @footfault1941 3 года назад +3

    "not a tree... Plant! " How to tell one from the other? And berry?!

    • @AuliaAF
      @AuliaAF 3 года назад +1

      It doesn't have bark-like thing. It would be closer if you imagine an onion with extremely elongated form. It has a layer inside a layer inside a layer.. :D

    • @footfault1941
      @footfault1941 3 года назад

      @@AuliaAF nicely put it!

  • @RamnaViaz
    @RamnaViaz 3 года назад +4

    "Contrary to popular belief I don't live in a greenhouse"
    Well my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

  • @evannielsen3423
    @evannielsen3423 3 года назад +4

    Should try picking bananas, it's hard work, cutting and humping bananas on your shoulder then walking it over to a trailer to put down all day long, bunches weighing maybe 40kg average and going up to 70kg+. Can be a bit scary having a banana bunch fall down on your shoulder from 8ft+ high in the air then to swinging a sharp knife above the back of your head to cut the banana stem in a once motion type of movement. Search it up 'banana humping' as I don't think most people realise how their picked haha

  • @XSemperIdem5
    @XSemperIdem5 3 года назад +2

    Wait, so what type are the mini bananas? Because they don't taste like regular bananas or plantain.
    Plantains less sweet? You're not letting them ripen enough. I leave it until the peel is mostly black and it feels softer. Then you fry them and they're so squishy and taste caramelized.
    It's 4:23am. I do not need to go eat a banana with peanut butter right now. Stop making me hungry 😅
    And I laughed too loudly at the banana scientist outtakes 😂 Hey, if we can have penguinologists, we can have banana scientists.

  • @KenBladehart
    @KenBladehart 3 года назад +3

    I have Gros Michel in my yard
    The bananas are huge. I always forgot about that

  • @Assen87
    @Assen87 3 года назад +23

    As a banana(eating) expert I say "Have no fear, bananas will always be here"

    • @ajd2393
      @ajd2393 3 года назад +2

      Depending on where you are in the world it might take a while to make a comeback if the Cavendish goes extint

    • @ladycommentor2536
      @ladycommentor2536 3 года назад

      I would have sent you bananas if I could😆😆 we grow a lot here in my place...

  • @Nikki0417
    @Nikki0417 3 года назад +7

    I was thinking "banana scientist" sounded like the weirdest job title, and clearly, so did Tasha. 🤣

  • @inkcreb2088
    @inkcreb2088 3 года назад +3

    Did you know that twin bananas existed
    They are commonly found in south east asia
    Mostly in the Philippines,Malaysia and Singapore

  • @imbun37
    @imbun37 3 года назад +3

    I was intrigued to know that banana is a berry, and strawberries are not a berry. Do more on that; we want to know more which berry is not berry.

    • @othelliusmaximus
      @othelliusmaximus 3 года назад

      Me too. My life is a lie.

    • @MrJoeyWheeler
      @MrJoeyWheeler 3 года назад

      If you think that's confusing, Jellyfish, catfish, and stonefish all aren't fish - because there's no such thing as a fish.

  • @anothernightmare7646
    @anothernightmare7646 2 года назад +1

    In Indonesia, this tree are around the whole housing area, especially in the village.

  • @blufu8727
    @blufu8727 3 года назад +5

    Im surprised this is going extinct. While markets where I live in just practically tosses rotten bananas left and right. Bruh.

  • @benjaminoverlie8829
    @benjaminoverlie8829 3 года назад +1

    Sorry to be that guy but technically the banana is America's favorite fruit, I believe the world's is the Mango.

  • @rai1879
    @rai1879 3 года назад +6

    I'm from Central America and we love our bananas here 😂 I love plantains and my mom likes the red ones.
    There's a tiny variety here, as big as a pinky and they're super sweet.

  • @kachnickau
    @kachnickau 3 года назад +6

    This is probably my most favorite Floralogic show to date :-D No fart jokes noticed :D :D .D

  • @reynatoalpuerto5544
    @reynatoalpuerto5544 3 года назад +1

    In the Philippines, we don't actually eat cavindish bananas. This is the variety most of Americans know. Here, we have a lot more cultivars that are sweeter.

  • @OdariArt
    @OdariArt 3 года назад +9

    Banana Scientist sounds dope! Great video Tasha. You had me on the floor at the end when you were eating. You are too silly. Lol!

  • @Foreverchris01
    @Foreverchris01 3 года назад +2

    Bananas are going extinct.
    Every banana loving monkey: Alright boys, time to initiate operation planet of the apes.

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 3 года назад

      Cultivated bananas, not wild bananas which are doing ok here in south east Asia.

  • @richardgaspar4590
    @richardgaspar4590 3 года назад +2

    The date palm has a tasty fruit too, i like the scent of vanilla and it is a beautiful orchid.

  • @B7788
    @B7788 3 года назад +14

    Remember seeing banana extinctions news about 20 years ago, time flies by quick😎

  • @Cuestrupaster
    @Cuestrupaster 3 года назад +1

    I live in Brasil... Fresh and natural bananas does taste awesome... and it's good to not have to pay fortune to have them...

  • @nunyabiznes33
    @nunyabiznes33 3 года назад +8

    Banana "heartwood" is also edible. And yes the leaves can be turned into fabric.

  • @andrewmarshall5714
    @andrewmarshall5714 3 года назад +10

    Disappointed you didn't include Australia in the banana producing countries. We do produce bananas in Australia.

  • @arislopes1924
    @arislopes1924 3 года назад +5

    I live in south Florida and we have banana trees in our backyard mostly as landscaping ornaments they’re popular here for that they give a nice tropical vibe. Some have given fruit before but the bananas were really small but actually tastes decently. I’m aware most bananas we get at supermarkets are full of gmos and fake colors. In some parts of Latin America a banana tree congregation of plantation is called a chawite. Also the US government has started wars and supported dictatorships for bananas thats were the term banana wars come from

    • @genshin4822
      @genshin4822 3 года назад +2

      There are a lot of variety of bananas. Those small banana in your backyard is probably not the common variety you see on supermarkets which is cavendish. The seemingly fake color you see is probably because most of them are ripened by ethylene. I also don't think you need to make GMO banana since they are really resistant to pest. Never in my entire 30y of living surrounded by banana here in south east asia have seen banana attacked by insect pest.

    • @kevineckelkampe2r
      @kevineckelkampe2r 2 года назад

      I buy organic and yea the US govt is evil lol, i.e. banana republics

    • @kevineckelkampe2r
      @kevineckelkampe2r 2 года назад

      @@genshin4822 I buy organic here in america

    • @horaciokanashiro-hv2zn
      @horaciokanashiro-hv2zn Год назад

      Yes.
      ( I have to admit, " bananas war" reminds me of the gorillas game included in MS DOS operating system).

  • @shestewa6581
    @shestewa6581 3 года назад +3

    OH MY GOD. BANANA ON TOAST. I grew up eating it my entire life and everyone I know thinks the concept is gross.
    Hot toasty toast with loads of butter smashed on the top and a ripe (usually half per slice of bread) banana smashed into the butter. Perfect snack and breakfast.
    Ms Amazon. I bow to you as a member of the banana on toast clan. You’re the first person I’ve seen that actually knows and or likes it other than my family.

    • @rawdata678
      @rawdata678 3 года назад

      As an Italian, I normally get mad, if not personally offended by recipes I never tasted. Now, the banana toast has surpassed the pineapple pizza in my personal grossness scale.

  • @f.d.c.willard8768
    @f.d.c.willard8768 3 года назад +24

    I'd love to see you cover Kudzu in the future!

    • @joan_of_snark
      @joan_of_snark 3 года назад

      Ooo, me too! That stuff was absolutely everywhere in NC.

  • @selamabunu8253
    @selamabunu8253 3 года назад +10

    Alright, had pause after the fart pun. 🤣 Laughed so hard.
    Also, this is great content! 🍌 is a clone 😲

    • @satansamael666
      @satansamael666 3 года назад +1

      Also, surprising control of innuendoes there.

  • @metallosmonstermeltdown
    @metallosmonstermeltdown 3 года назад +7

    Oh Tasha 😍🥰 You are so wholesome and adorable ❤😌🌱🌿 Bless you

  • @PRDreams
    @PRDreams 3 года назад +3

    I grow bananas and plantains. My favorites are the Manzano, the niño and the red bananas in that order, but we sell Cavendish is the one we sell commercially.

  • @iffracem
    @iffracem 3 года назад +25

    Love your work :-)
    Northern NSW and Queensland in Australia (and West Aust and the Northern Territory) also produce a lot of Bananas. To try to protect the industry against potential diseases, it's illegal to grow Cavendish bananas at your home in Qld, most grow the smaller, "lady finger" instead.
    Mushrooms, mushrooms should be on your list, not really "plants" but a fascinating subject that could be an entire series on it's own.

  • @johnpaulsanchez1121
    @johnpaulsanchez1121 3 года назад +2

    Video starts at 2:00

  • @lokiiago_x0x
    @lokiiago_x0x 3 года назад +1

    I’d love to see an episode on Baobab trees! Hydro-homie 💜

  • @AaronShenghao
    @AaronShenghao 3 года назад +3

    Oh no, if bananas are gone, how would I know the size of everything?!?

  • @joshuaokoro-sokoh2993
    @joshuaokoro-sokoh2993 3 года назад +1

    You say BAHNANAH!!! I say BANANA!!!

  • @tomgummerson2286
    @tomgummerson2286 3 года назад +5

    I tried my hand at growing dwarf cavendish bananas inside this year. Last week I put my big ones into bigger pots and transplanted some runners into new pots. Nothing died yet so I call it a success.
    Would love to get more dwarf fruiting varieties next year space permitting.

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat6157 3 года назад +2

    English: Platanus=sycamore or plane, Musa=plantain, Plantago=plantain
    Spanish: Platanus=plátano, Musa=plátano, Plantago=llantén

  • @cupidzsnakes6865
    @cupidzsnakes6865 3 года назад +8

    Maybe cover colored grasses like black mondo and blood grass and why they’re so dangerous

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365
    @aniksamiurrahman6365 3 года назад +1

    I was born in Bangladesh. I remember there are so many native varieties of Banana in the country of my birth! But since the 90s, with the tide of economic development, a lot of these varieties have vanished from the market. However, there are still many. If Cavendish goes bye bye, Indian and Bangladeshi varieties will make sure banana loving people don't get deprived of this soft sweet delicious fruit.

  • @byrlink
    @byrlink 3 года назад +8

    Please talk about “frailejones” (genus Espeletia).
    It’s a beautiful high altitude plant that dominates the páramo ecosystems in Colombia (most are here), Ecuador and Venezuela.
    They are hairy tower-like plants that absorb moisture from the clouds and release it through their roots, creating underground reservoirs, lakes and rivers that form the water source for tens of millions of their inhabitants.

  • @dawnofapril3055
    @dawnofapril3055 3 года назад +3

    I used to have a banana "tree" in my backyard growing up in Miami. That's probably the only place in the continental US they can be grown, considering their requirements.

    • @NavyCook08
      @NavyCook08 3 года назад

      Or bottom tip of TX, right?

    • @S2kv529
      @S2kv529 2 года назад

      They grow successfully in so much places in the US.

  • @MrJoeyWheeler
    @MrJoeyWheeler 3 года назад +3

    I think the only part that disappointed me was that at no point in the video did you eat a banana, to show that the more efficient way to eat one is to punch the brown end and peel, as opposed to pulling the stem as most people to.

    • @kevineckelkampe2r
      @kevineckelkampe2r 2 года назад

      I learned that from a Chinese lady I took care of

  • @mina4530
    @mina4530 3 года назад +5

    Living in SEA, bananas here are cultivated for food and textile. It's an amazing plant. But really hope certain varieties won't go instinct.

  • @twstf8905
    @twstf8905 3 года назад +5

    Eating 1 banana 🍌 every second?
    I really can't think of too many better ways to spend my three thousand one hundred and seventy years.
    (100 billion might be too many to shoot for though 🤔)

  • @asadhafeez9681
    @asadhafeez9681 3 года назад +1

    Not forget to mention, potassium is also made out of bananas

  • @luthfitriksuma
    @luthfitriksuma 3 года назад +2

    SALAM DARI BINJAI! BAK BUK BAK BUK BAK BUK!!!

  • @shamik_sathe
    @shamik_sathe 3 года назад +3

    I really like her(Tasha the amazon) , it's so catchy 😀

  • @letmetellyouabouttheconsti139
    @letmetellyouabouttheconsti139 2 года назад +2

    I grow bananas in my backyard, and I love seeing you bring up the importance of it!

  • @reecec626
    @reecec626 3 года назад +2

    We grow bananas here in Australia, too!

  • @OBIIIIIIIII
    @OBIIIIIIIII 3 года назад +4

    You should try eating banana blossoms. It’s so much more different than you expect. A great meat-free plant based alternative

    • @OBIIIIIIIII
      @OBIIIIIIIII 2 года назад

      @dead account read about page that’s why I called it meat-free because it can be substituted for things like fish

  • @jason1605
    @jason1605 2 года назад +1

    I grow blue Java at my home . It is quite tasty but is prone to fungal damage. This variety is quite rare in my country, and you will never find them in markets. It is highly valued and never sold.
    We grow these Banana plants in groups, each group having several plants. One of my blue Java Banana group just died after fungal infection. The shoots became stunted n the plants started wilting. We had to burn it to save the rest of the plantations. However, from the observations, there was ant infestation that may have introduced the fungus. We also have plantains, which are resistant to fungal damage. It grows like weed.

  • @gerardoantonioescobar1829
    @gerardoantonioescobar1829 3 года назад +1

    Could you please talk about endangered butterflies the next time?, like, actually endangered butterflies that almost no one knows about.

  • @garyhamilton2104
    @garyhamilton2104 3 года назад +3

    Thought the title said planet and was scared for a sec but realized it's always been true

  • @jannepasanen2655
    @jannepasanen2655 3 года назад +14

    Not sure if there already is a video about vanilla and cocoa beans but deep dive into either of them would be nice.

  • @empoleonmaster6709
    @empoleonmaster6709 3 года назад +8

    I want you to cover kudzu, it's a super interesting plant.

  • @JeruuiG
    @JeruuiG 3 года назад +3

    Can y'all please make a video about Portulacaria afra? I've been reading recently about how its called a miracle plant.

  • @ryangutierrez775
    @ryangutierrez775 3 года назад +2

    Cloudberries

  • @LuinTathren
    @LuinTathren 3 года назад +2

    I love you Tasha! You are so funny!

  • @rexmikes6270
    @rexmikes6270 3 года назад +14

    there are so many plants and levels of mycology i would love to see you guys cover!! off the top of my head i'd love to know more about tabernanthe iboga, amanita muscaria, sacred blue lotus, chamomile...could go on forever! lavender, anything regarding atropine...keep up the good work tasha!

  • @laskey2175
    @laskey2175 3 года назад

    7:13 I'll remember that next time I need rope for my coconut shoes. Just got to get me some banana leaves.

  • @marioguerrero1305
    @marioguerrero1305 3 года назад +1

    We must save bananas for monke

  • @GoingtoHecq
    @GoingtoHecq 3 года назад

    About the weaving, banana fibers make very good cloth.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 3 года назад +1

    Suggestion: The citrus fruit family/lesser known citrus fruit.🍊🍋

  • @charliepea
    @charliepea 3 года назад +2

    Banana is my most favourite fruit (apple on second place) and I always buy a lot at school everyday until I got nearly hospitalised by it lol. I just don't want bananas to go extinct man...

  • @rajatugau4232
    @rajatugau4232 3 года назад +2

    Does the largest banana plant in the world; Musa ingens grow anywhere else in the world besides Papua Island?

  • @benjif2424
    @benjif2424 3 года назад

    Differences between common term and scientific term is not linguistically speaking a "mistake" or "wrong". A tree, a berry, those are words that have useful common uses that simply should not be "corrected" just because herbalists use them differently.

  • @UntrackedEndorphins
    @UntrackedEndorphins 3 года назад +3

    People eat toast with banana??

    • @xrete
      @xrete 3 года назад

      strange right..?

    • @haqqizillysozo
      @haqqizillysozo 3 года назад +1

      I prefer banana pancake

  • @Alpha13Wolf
    @Alpha13Wolf 3 года назад +1

    They’ were also used to make paper, manila paper specifically. Musa textilis, now though gets used primarily for specialty papers, like that used for tea bags and coffee filters.

  • @donaldhobson8873
    @donaldhobson8873 3 года назад +4

    When normal people say berry they mean a fruit, small, often red (or possibly blackish or other colours), sharp when unripe, soft, no peel, tiny edible seeds. Generally grows well in coolish climates like scotland. Generally found on bushes. Eg raspberry, strawberry, cherry, redcurrent, blackcurrent, gooseberry bramble.
    If biologist's need a term for single overy, multiple seeds, pick another word. The word "berry" is taken and means something different.

  • @SteveRogers0768
    @SteveRogers0768 3 года назад +1

    Go to 3:46 to see the blue banana